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SLP66 James O’Beirne - The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin

SLP66 James O’Beirne - The truth about ‘power’ in Bitcoin

Stephan Livera Podcast vor 7 Jahren

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James O’Beirne, Bitcoin Core Engineer at Chaincode Labs joins me
in this episode to talk about the real nature of ‘power’ and
control within Bitcoin. It’s not as simple as it might first
seem! We talk about:

Differing conceptions of ‘power’ in Bitcoin

Peer to peer network governance

Bitcoin Core development

Assume utxo

James O’Beirne links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob

Github: https://github.com/jamesob

Chaincode labs: https://chaincode.com/

Discussed in episode:

2019 Draft Paper by Angela Walch: Deconstructing
'Decentralization': Exploring the Core Claim of Crypto Systems -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3326244

WBD089 - Angela Walch appearance on What Bitcoin Did podcast
-
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/critiquing-bitcoin-with-angela-walch

Assumeutxo:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-April/016825.html

Stephan Livera links:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@stephanlivera

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